Also:http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=519569
Posted on 11/20/2013 7:29:27 AM PST by Sir Napsalot
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And the people used to have a special treatment for such tools.
From now on, I will call him "Which Version? Ken".
Learn that bangs on middle-aged men are ridiculous, Ken.
I’d rather learn the words of James Stockdale and Rudyard Kipling by heart.
Not sure if he did the Lincoln At Gettysburg film on PBS last night but it was pretty good. Except for the part where Lincoln wrote his address. My understanding is he wrote it on the back of an envelope rather than penning it on two pages on a train (that wasn’t rockin’ and rollin’) and herniating over each word or phrase.
The envelope story is not true.
Ironically, the narrator in the Ken Burns series did not recite the Gettysburg Address correctly—there were several minor deviations from the text. Maybe the narrator had memorized it once upon a time and didn’t have the text in front of him.
Also:http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=519569
“...and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
No more hypocritical words ever spoken by a sitting president considering what he was doing at the time.
Obama (Virtual) Gettysburg address (2013): "... of the My people, by the My people, for the My people ...."
Was listening to a historian talking about it yesterday. Another myth is that newspapers of the day panned the speech. Actually democrat papers hated it, republican papers loved it. I don’t know but it seems reasonable that some democrat newspaper hack wrote - The speech was like something he threw together on the back of an envelope. And the legend was born.
Actually he put a lot of thought and effort into the speech.
Another thing this guy pointed out is that it was highly unusual in that day for Presidents to give speeches (as unbelievable as that seems to us). It was something they just didn’t do. So just the fact that the President was giving a speech was huge news in and of itself.
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